LAHORE, May 17: Police have refused to accept an application filed by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Asma Jehangir against a woman DSP for tearing down her clothes in public. The HRCP chairperson announced that she would move the Lahore High Court against what, she said, illegal refusal.

“Moharrar Asif is refusing to accept the application while the ASP and the SHO have fled their offices,” she told Dawn on telephone from the Liberty police station on Tuesday evening.

“Both the officials were at their offices when I headed for the police station,” she said, “but they left before I reached the police station.”

Ms Jehangir’s shirt was torn up when the police tried to stop her from moving to Qadhafi Stadium for organizing a mixed mini-marathon there on Saturday last.

At the police station, where she had gone to file a complaint, she identified the woman in civvies issuing directions to the police, as DSP Rehana.

The PPP, the ANP, the Labour Party, the National Workers Party and other progressive groups have also announced their symbolic participation in the May 21 mixed run, claimed Labour Party secretary-general Farooq Tariq, who was accompanying Ms Jehangir.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the Joint Action Committee decided to hold the May 21 mini-marathon from the Liberty Chowk to the Kalima Chowk.

It constituted various bodies to invite more trade unions and professional groups like lawyers to join them.

The JAC would meet again on Friday to finalize details of the event.

CONDEMNATION: Mean-while, the HRCP has condemned excesses committed against Asma Jehangir, HRCP secretary-general Iqbal Haider and others.